Dawn Lonsinger

Dawn Lonsinger is an American poet born near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (birth year circa 1976), best known for her poetry collection Whelm, winner of the 2012 Idaho Prize in Poetry from Lost Horse Press, as well as Cornell's Freund Prize and a Shelf Unbound Notable Book of the Year. She has received numerous accolades including a Fulbright Fellowship to South Korea, four Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes, the Corson Bishop Prize, and the Beullah Rose Prize from Smartish Pace, and her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Guernica, and others. Lonsinger holds degrees from Bucknell University (BA/MA), Cornell (MFA), and the University of Utah (PhD), and serves as Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing and Director of Creative Writing at Muhlenberg College.